Former US attorney general Ramsey Clark is to join the defence team of Saddam Hussein, a spokesman for the toppled Iraqi president’s lawyers said today. Mr Clark, who held the office of attorney general under US president Lyndon B. Johnson, “is one of the members of the defence team of president Saddam Hussein,” Ziad Khassawneh […]
This week, separate trials are scheduled to begin for two of the more prominent names on the government’s list of pinstriped bad boys: Bernard Ebbers, former head of WorldCom, and Dennis Kozlowski, former CEO of Tyco International. Except for the upcoming trial of former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeff Skilling, most of the marquee
When it comes to coffee, Russell Christoff is more of a fresh-brewed than a freeze-dried kind of guy. So he never scrutinized the Taster’s Choice label. When he finally did, he was staring back at himself. While shopping for Bloody Mary mix at a drug store in 2002, the former actor and model saw a
Scott Sullivan the former WorldCom finance chief, admitted lying to the board and an internal auditor during the $11 billion accounting fraud. On the first day of his cross-examination yesterday Mr Sullivan conceded that he had lied more than a dozen times about the financial health of the company, whose profits were deteriorating between 2000
Microsoft is in the middle of a global review of its law firms as it attempts to control spiralling legal costs caused mainly by its endless antitrust and patent litigation. It is understood that the world’s largest software house has frozen hourly rates until the selection process is completed. Those firms chosen so far have
A man who shot himself to death during a traffic stop in Wisconsin claimed in a suicide note that he killed a federal judge’s husband and mother, a source close to the investigation told The Associated Press Thursday. Chicago Police Department spokesman David Bayless identified the man as Bart Ross. WMAQ-TV in Chicago also reported
THERE is a joke doing the rounds that goes: “Knock, Knock.” “Who’s there?” “Michael.” “Michael who?” “Right, you’re on the Michael Jackson jury.” Given the pop singer’s immense fame, it is hard to imagine that anyone in the potential jury pool for his child molestation trial would not have heard of him. Yet Rodney Melville,
Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., whose fierce, flamboyant and electrifyingly effective advocacy in the O. J. Simpson murder trial captivated the country and solidified his image as a master of high-profile criminal defense, died yesterday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 67. The cause was a brain tumor, said a law partner, Peter J.
In what would be a highly unusual event, one of L. Dennis Kozlowski’s lawyers could find himself testifying in the retrial of the former chief executive of Tyco International Ltd., his lawyers said Wednesday. Stephen E. Kaufman, Kozlowski’s lead attorney, could be forced to take the stand if David Boies, a prominent lawyer who conducted
Just as he finds himself sitting in a courtroom, pondering the possibility of prison and fighting the legal battle of his life, Michael Jackson is now also facing an urgent financial crisis that could cause him to lose part of his valuable music publishing business. The onetime King of Pop, whose lavish spending and mounting
